Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.

Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.

Don’t make me climb across this desk and slap you, because I will.

The artist doesn't see things as they are but as he is.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

I was a musician first before anything.

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

I breastfed Sophie for 14 months and Nicolas for 11 months.

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.